The shares of IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) and Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA) were among the active stocks of the last trading sessions. IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) soared to 1.3% closing at the price of $53.78 whereas the shares of Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA) declined -4.06% with the decrease of -1.08 points closing at the price of $25.52. IHS Markit Ltd. has currently increase 2.95% in its stock over the period of 6-months while its rival Liberty Global plc subtracted -13.81% in the previous 6-months.

Now we have to analyze the facts that if the stocks were worthy off investors’ money? The facts to analyze here are risks, profitability, returns and price trends.

Returns and Profitability

Profitability and returns are the main reason of investment, the investors are looking for profits that they get and return they should expect over the period of time.

The first and foremost return that is considered while making an investment is the ROI or Return on Investment. The ROI is the ratio between the profit against the cost of investment. Currently the ROI of IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) is 4.7% while the ROI of Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA) is 2.6%. Another figure that is to be considered while analyzing the profitability of a share is its EBITDA margin, INFO’s EBITDA Margin is 20.4 whereas LBTYA’s is 7.19.

Both the profitability ratios suggest that IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) is more suitable investment in terms of profitability and return.

Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) shows that IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) is on a PRICE RELATIVITY trend While Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA) is on PRICE RELATIVITY trend. The trend for the past 10-days shows that the IHS Markit Ltd. was in BULLISH territory and Liberty Global plc was in BULLISH territory.

INFO’s current statistics gauge that the stock candle is BULLISH with HIGH volatility. While LBTYA’s candle is BEARISH with HIGH.

EPS Growth Rate: INFO’s 10.91% versus LBTYA’s 0%

Another shareholder value can be analyzed through the EPS growth rate; the next 5 years EPS growth rate is predicted by the analysts after the analyzing the previous trends. The next 5 year EPS growth rate of IHS Markit Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFO) is predicted at 10.91% while Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA) stands at 0%. These numbers suggest that INFO is more suitable investment in terms of EPS growth rate.

Financial Risk and Liquidity Concerns

The current ratio and the debt ratio are the two ratios that show the investor how quickly the company is able to payout its debt and how quickly it can cover its obligations. The current ratio of INFO stands at 0.4 while LBTYA is at 0.4 whereas the debt ratio of the prior is 0.77 while the debt ratio of the later is 6.22.

The values of the both ratios suggest that LBTYA is more suitable investment when the liquidity and risk is the main concern.

Analyst Recommendations

While making an investment, another main factor to consider before investing is the analyst recommendation on the scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is strong buy, 2 is buy, 3 is hold, 4 is Sell and 5 is strong sell. Analyst recommend 2.2 for INFO and 2.2 for LBTYA which means INFO has Hold rating whereas LBTYA has Hold rating.

Another recommendation of analyst that is to be considered worthy is the price target. The mare price or price trend does not suggest the suitability of a stock. The price target set by analyst is also to be considered while investing as it suggests to what extent the stock will rise or fall in the near future. The price target set for INFO is $59 which is 8.85% of its current price while LBTYA has price target of 35.64 which is 28.4% of its current price.

Valuation Ratios

Valuation is the process of determining the company’s worth for an investor, the valuation ratios give an insight to that worthiness.

INFO currently has price to earning P/E ratio of 51.02 whereas LBTYA has 0 while the forward P/E ratio for the prior stands at 20.93 and for the later it depicts the value of 375.29.

The price to Book P/B for INFO is 2.68, Price to Sale is at 5.48 and for LBTYA these ratios stand at 3.93 and 1.4.